Jung called the imagination “the mother of all possibilities.” The capacity to imagine sets humans apart from the rest of creation, and provides us with an ability to heal what has been wounded and to create what has never been before. But the gift is not without danger. After imagination follows choice, the choice to live what we have imagined or to forgo the fate it carries. The imagination can paradoxically lead to healing and creativity or dead ends and destruction. This symposium aims to confront the participant with the puzzles and enigmas of the imagination as well as with the challenge to act that imagination poses.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of The Tao
of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of
Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle,
Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree
with over eighty foreign translations. She is a Distinguished Life
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical
professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San
Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the
International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the
Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the
Soul of Healing Award", and is a Diplomate of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology. Jean Shinoda
Bolen is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric
Association, and a past Chairperson of the Council of National Affairs
of the APA, a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and
Dynamic Psychiatry, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the
American Orthopsychiatric Association, and a former Board member of the
International Transpersonal Association. She is an Analyst-member of the
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the International Association
for Analytical Psychology. She is a past member of the Board of
Governors of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and past
Chairperson of the Joint Certifying Board of the Northern and Southern
California Societies of Jungian Analysts. She has been a member of the
Board of Directors of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She founded and
co-chaired Psychiatrists for ERA, which was a major influence within
psychiatry in the early 1980's, that evolved into the Association for
Women in Psychiatry.

Kenneth James, PhD is
director of Student Services at the Laboratory School, University of
Chicago. His areas of expertise include dream work and psychoanalysis,
archetypal dimensions of analytic practice, divination and
synchronicity, hypnosis as a therapeutic medium, and Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing. He has done post-doctoral work in
music therapy and theology, and uses these disciplines to inform his
work as a Jungian analyst. For more information visit www.soulworkcenter.org

Robert Sardello, PhD is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992, and co-editor of Goldenstone Press. He has written: Money and the Soul of the World (with Randolf Severson), Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul, Love and the World, Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as Spiritual Practice, and Acts of the Heart. His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and developing the interior presence of heart with Earth, others, and the world. He is an independent teacher and scholar. He is a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and one of its founders.